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I made this thing. https://public.tableau.co...

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"Everybody" is our term for picture books. - laura x - -

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Reader and Large Print. I really should have relabeled the collections. :-) - laura x from iPhone - -

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waltcrawford to Library Society of the World
Rick Anderson makes a point I agree with (hey, it can happen!) in Skitch today...and wow, is the comment stream revealing about some of the other "chefs," and not in a good way. http://scholarlykitchen.s...

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The comment stream continues apace, now with multiple assurances that we *need* a blacklist and a whitelist for OA journals. I've commented to ask: can you point me to the blacklist and whitelist for subscription journals? (OK, I know I should stay away, but it's SO tempting.) - waltcrawford - -

bentley to Library Society of the World, bentley's feed
School launches 'Go Fund Me' to save librarian's job http://www.azcentral.com/... "After years of absorbing funding cuts from the state, teachers and parents at one West Valley elementary school are taking an extraordinary step to save their librarian's job — a crowdsourcing campaign [...] to raise $20,000 to save the librarian's job." (via http://library-mofo.livej... )

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World, Catherine Pellegrino's feed
That thing where you realize that the LibGuide that you inherited from another librarian has all of its links set up as links within a Rich Text box, instead of a "Links & Lists" box, and you're going to have to reconstruct every link in every box.

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...and the librarian from whom you inherited it is your boss. - Catherine Pellegrino - -

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Ditto. :-( :-( - fitzm - -

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Galadriel to Library Society of the World
The delightful call for research papers in an OA journal that was in my inbox this morning: https://www.dropbox.com/s... .

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"Y'all wouldn't like the response I sent if I decided to send one. Ignorance is bliss." - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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I actually check my spam mail daily (hey, I'm retired, it's usually down to 10-20/day), so I've become very aware of/appreciative of Gmail's apparent expertise with the journal spammers. It's not quite as good with the "welcome in Christ..." offers of Big Bucks for a Small Handling Fee. - waltcrawford - -

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waltcrawford to Library Society of the World
Wonderful, just wonderful: now there's a "study" saying that Flanders scholars published in "predatory" journals X number of times, because Beall--that is, HIS UNSUPPORTED WORD is enough to form the basis of a study. (Edited: the study wasn't really scholarly, but the basis for it's pretty damn objectionable--oh, and they threw in a Hindawi appendix, because The Great Beall's still suspicious of them.) Arrgghh... http://eprints.rclis.org/...

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World
Well, so, um, that kind of backfired: we went through 39 boxes of paper in the fall, and 38 in the spring. Our total printing is up 40,000 pages (8%) over last year. #oops http://content.screencast...

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Printing on campus overall is down, though, so the net effect is that our humble printer is carrying a larger percentage of campus printing: 38.4% last year, and 42.7% this year. Yay. (Not.) - Catherine Pellegrino - -

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"everyone else is printing here, guess I will too!" :P - Marianne - -

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waltcrawford to Library Society of the World
Yesterday I was itching to say something snarky about the CiL keynote I'm so glad I didn't hear, based on the Forbes blog entry by the speaker--where I pretty much stopped after a paragraph listing all these things (books, newspapers, watches, magazines, etc., etc.) that are "obsolete" because of smartphones. Turns out The Annoyed One did a good brief take on this guy: http://lj.libraryjournal....

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oh THAT guy. yeah, they had him at SLA Leadership Summit and he didn't have much that was interesting or useful to say. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

waltcrawford to Library Society of the World
Not going to name names, and it's on another former-ff hangout, but *damn*: 20 years ago, some of today's Hot Library White Male Keynoters were overexposed (IMNSHO). Twenty years ago. Too bad there are no thoughtful, interesting, informed, maybe-less-than-nearing-retirement-age women or non-whites in the library profession: where did they all go? (Since there were plenty of them back in the day..,admittedly underfeatured on same-old, same-old, safe-keynote rosters.)

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Heck, even two years ago--the last time I spoke at a conference--there were women who were better speakers, better informed, more interesting than most of the Men On The Podium. Was there some plague I'm unaware of? - waltcrawford - -

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I do too. But in this case, it's not only sexual and racial diversity (needed as those are), it's *giving today's librarians a shot at the podium.* - waltcrawford - -

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lris to lris's feed, Library Society of the World
LOL "The overnight updates to our directory service caused all faculty email addresses to disappear." http://screencast.com/t/1...

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omg ITS, whyyy - Lily - -

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Oh dear. - Galadriel from Android - -

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Ondatra iSkoolicus to Library Society of the World, Ondatra iSkoolicus's feed
Feeling a warm glow of righteous virtue because I told our coll-dev librarian not to buy any of Primary Research Group's lousy reports.

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Forms a company called the Secondary Research Group. The first publication might called Current Cites & Incites a Riot. - Joe from iPad - -

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I second that. - waltcrawford - -

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mehlib to Library Society of the World
Walt, I just want to let you know that one of my colleagues is your biggest fan. He emails us info about resources he has read about in Cites & Insights all the time, today with the intro "Some of you may know that I’m a big fan of the Current Cites newsletter, which reviews recent LIS literature."

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mehlib: Sounds like he's talking about Current Cites, Roy Tennant's monthly e-newsletter (he's the editor and has several reviewers), which does exactly that: reviews recent LIS literature. Cites & Insights is an entirely different animal. Thanks anyway! - waltcrawford - -

Marianne to Library Society of the World, Marianne's feed
Two of my coworkers had to chase a squirrel out of the library this morning. Also, did you know squirrels in Colorado carry the bubonic plague? (No one got bit.) Kinda put my worries for the day in perspective :D

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Yikes. There are stories around here about before we had air conditioning, and so we left the front doors open a lot in the summer, and the librarian who had Goose Duty. But geese don't have plague. Just poop. - Catherine Pellegrino - -

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Plague Squirrel is my new band name - mehlib - -

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World
Codsignal request: Can anyone point me to a succinct teardown of the argument that it actually does cost $XX,XXX to publish a scientific journal, to help me respond to my scientist non-librarian friend @wandsci's tweets below? http://content.screencast...

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I don't have a succinct teardown argument that specifically addresses cost per journal, but I think this post by Heather Morrison about Elsevier's 39 percent profit in the STM realm last year should address the point (and she does, in her post). http://poeticeconomics.bl... - It doesn't cost $XX,XXX if the huge publishing corporation doing it is making a 39 percent profit, right? At MOST it costs $XX,XXX-39 percent. (And I think that's being way too generous about the corporation's motives.) - Marianne - -

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That was a good brief tweet. (Somehow, I think folks from "regular" journals are going to say "we earn EVERY SINGLE CENT WE MAKE," because not suicidal.) - waltcrawford - -

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mehlib to Library Society of the World, mehlib's feed
Dear Self, Difficult and scary writing is somewhat less scary and difficult after taking a break and getting a decent night's sleep.

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World, Catherine Pellegrino's feed
When editing the box with the library's hours, in order to post the hours for exam week, I left out ONE forwardslash and inadvertently turned all the text on the library home page bold. This is why I hate working without a staging server. ಠ_ಠ

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Sounds like a shortcoming in the software that doesn't handle unclosed tags. - Stephan from iPhone - -

Stephen Francoeur to Library Society of the World
It's been close to a month since thelsw.org site has been revived with a new platform (Discourse). The other LSW locations at Frenf.it and on Facebook as well as thelsw.org site have all been seeing varying levels of activity. I think I'm seeing a trend that may be useful to us as we figure out this diaspora thing (no, not the forgotten social network...I mean our situation). It seems like the FB page and Frenf.it group have water cooler conversations and thelsw.org site has...

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...conference lobby conversations. Does that seem accurate? If so, what do we make of it? [cross posted on all LSW venues] - Stephen Francoeur - -

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I read "codeswitch" in ellbeecee's comment as "codswitch." It felt so right. - Katy_S - -

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mehlib to Library Society of the World, mehlib's feed
I had kind of a day today. You know, A DAY. Not a horrible day, but an emotionally exhausting & trying day. So, help me out, people, let's make a list of good things. Go!

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People on Twitter who patiently help me learn new stuff. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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MPOW's legal counsel agreed to help me with a license that I've been negotiating since February. Also, daffodils! - Galadriel from Android - -

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lris to lris's feed, Library Society of the World
Starting my LOEX experience with some fun cab driver fraud. Sigh.

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bleck, that is no good - mehlib - -

waltcrawford to Library Society of the World
A Word (or LibreOffice) formatting expertise question: you're printing a bunch of shelf labels, which are always one line long but vary in type size (depending on the length of the label), and the labels need to be 3/4" apart vertically. What's the easiest way to assure this spacing (when you're not planning to make a career out of it)? I figured out one very easy way, but it took me a few minutes to think of it. Can others do better? (I'll look again tomorrow morning and offer my own answer.)

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table? - Christina Pikas - -

OK, here's what I did--and I think it's easier/fewer steps than a table (or defining a new style): selected the whole list (ctrl-A or select all), right-clicked, chose Paragraph, made sure above & below spacing was zero, then set line spacing to exactly 54 points. Worked like a champ--and that process took about 10 seconds, much faster to do than to describe. - waltcrawford - -

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Catherine Pellegrino to Library Society of the World
If you were watching Twitter today, you may have caught a bit of this; I'm very, VERY glad that PLoS has apologized: http://news.sciencemag.or...

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"A peer reviewer’s suggestion that two female researchers find “one or two male biologists” to co-author and help them strengthen a manuscript they had written and submitted to a journal has unleashed an avalanche of disbelief and disgust on Twitter today -- and prompted an apology from the journal's publisher." - Catherine Pellegrino - -

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(Admittedly, with many hard science papers where work is only being done at one or two places, the source--if not necessarily the author[s], will be pretty obvious. There's always open peer review..) - waltcrawford - -

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Ondatra iSkoolicus to Library Society of the World, Ondatra iSkoolicus's feed
Interesting times. I'm seeing more and more folks tiptoeing away from Beall. E.g. http://www.openaccess.man...

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https://twitter.com/simon... is where they explicitly say "we don't rec Beall's List any more." - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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I see some minor flags for the journal, but I think it is more positive than negative. - Joe - -

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lris to Library Society of the World
Hey, guess what! It's the 8th Anniversary of the LSW today!!!!!!!!

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woooo! - ellbeecee - -

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What hedgehog sez. - waltcrawford - -

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mehlib to Library Society of the World, mehlib's feed
Anyone know an easy way to create hanging indents for references in Google Docs? They only way I can find is to move the markers in the ruler. I'd much rather do it with keyboard commands if possible.

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I don't know of a way to do it with keyboard commands in Word, so i'd be surprised if you could in GDocs - librarychic - -

^^^ This. I always use the ruler. - Catherine Pellegrino - -

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mehlib to Library Society of the World, mehlib's feed
Pratt Library in Baltimore is open today during school closures. They are asking for donations to support them at http://ow.ly/2bsGnY. Perhaps this is something the LSW can get behind?

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